GREENHOUSE, Leo Burnett’s nimble, in-house digital studio is now an official agency offering, having been formed earlier “to meet the demand of content production across a b...
October is National Archives Month and if that doesn’t sound as exciting, say, as celebrating October’s National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, National Kick Butt Day or Nati...
Brett Dalton (“Agents of SHIELD”) has the title role in “The Resurrection of Gavin Stone,” director Dallas Jenkins's first feature for Harvest Bible Chapel’s Vert...
In the relatively short three years since The Onion uprooted its New York offices and moved to Chicago, the media company started two new networks and Onion Productions to ...
The London-based 2015 Documentary Summit returns to Chicago for the first time since 2013 this weekend, Oct. 3-4, at Chicago Filmmakers, presenting some of Chicago’s most...
Elise and Gregg Jaffe are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their Big Teeth Productions with a party next week for 200 invited guests at their Ravenswood office.&nbs...
“Grace and Fortune,” a comedy short written by Lapiz SVP/ECD Fabio Seidl, is one of a dozen short films by some 30 filmmakers to screen at the Midwest Independent Film Festi...
TYLER JAY’S TANDEM, INC. conceptualized and produced another in the series of Grub Hub spots, the latest a video called “Winner Picks Lunch,” now airing national...
Starting today, Gary Adcock of Studio 37, one of the world’s best technology authorities on the ever-evolving relationship between acquisition, editing and delivery, will shar...
It was a very long day for two Chicago Recording Company engineers on a recent Friday when they recorded ADR for Spike Lee’s “Chiraq” feature, based on an ancient Greek an...
It looks like Chicago/Illinois’ spot production market is vastly bigger than has been officially reported in the past, according to AICP’s just-released 13th annual Survey o...
OGILVY IS THE NEW AGENCY for Chicago-headquartered Morton Salt, whose iconic logo and “Umbrella girl” mascot is in the process of being reintroduced to the world following a...
Champaign-Urbana filmmakers command the screen Sunday, Oct. 4 when the 6th Annual New Art Film Festival presents some 40 short films at the Art Theatre Co-op in Champa...
A documentary about the impossible journey taken by a Swiss endurance athlete running around the world over five years will debut on WTTW/11 Thursday, Sept. 24 before airing on ...
Jack Marchetti, Energy BBDO’s tech lead and software programmer by day and screenwriter by night, is back on Kickstarter to raise development money for his second film, a feat...
CIFF’S INDUSTRY DAYS kick off Oct. 24 with a special Industry Tribute to Gigi Pritzker, CEO of production and financing company Odd Lot Entertainment (OLE), and producer of mo...
Writer/producer/director Jack C. Newell’s romantic comedy, “Open Tables,” is one of 15 films showcasing in the 51st Chicago International Film Festival’s “City &a...
While working on an instructional video project for non-profit Illinois Heart Rescue, Pink Hippo Productions and Cates Collaborative decided that bucket drummers, funky rhythms ...
Producer/screenwriter Jim White will be helming a staged table read with 10 actors for his screenplay that was inspired by a trove of love letters written by the sweetheart of a...
ARU’s new bilingual engineer/sound designer, Ana De Irisarri, was part of the team that handled sound on a recent package of 28 Blue Cross-Blue Shield instructional viDeos —...